Gillian Turner: President Trump Is Pulling a Hillary Clinton

‘This is a smart power’

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TURNER: "I think North Korea number one is realistic and people are shooting to key into that. We are not in such a different situation from a few months ago and all anybody wanted to talk about was radical Islam and ISIS. That's all very good and well because I think the American people need to have intelligent, thoughtful conversations about terrorism, but North Korea has been there all along. This is not new, this is something that has been kind of simmering and boiling over the last three and half years now, and as Chris mentioned, there are certainly no easy options, but there's also no good options. Anything we do, vis-a-vis North Korea is going to have to be very multidimensional. I think second tillerson and his remarks at the U.N. Were speaking to China more than anybody else and what he's trying to say as we understand that you're the the gateway to the North Koreans when it comes to security, when it comes to propping up their national economy and we are taking a harder stance now. We're not going to help you in this endeavor anymore. I think that's really important for them to hear, more than North Korea, there is no reasoning with North Korea. I also want to say -- the president is a little bit "Pulling a hurry Clinton" which is not something I never thought I'd say, but this is a smart power, what he's talking about. I'm going to try to do all in with diplomacy and if it doesn't work, I maintaining the option to use military force against these people. That's an important tool in my toolbox. He's already started not using military force."

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